# Changing trace width

**URL:** <https://forum.fritzing.org/t/changing-trace-width/3231>\
**Category:** beginners\
**Created:** [March 8, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/changing-trace-width/3231 "2017-03-08T16:24:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/user_avatar/forum.fritzing.org/vanepp/32/4426_2.png) [@vanepp](https://forum.fritzing.org/u/vanepp)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.fritzing.org/t/changing-trace-width/3231/3 "2017-03-08T21:41:41Z")

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While I rarely make boards, a quick search for trace width in this forum turned up this one from Steelgoose and Old\_Grey which implies while you can’t change trackwidth globally you can change it via inspector on a by trace basis. That said you may be better off with one of the more advanced packages

(edit) I just tried a soic 18 package (don’t know if that is the same spacing you are using) and ran a wire from a resistor to a pin then selected the trace and changed the track size in inspector to 8 mil and it goes between the pins fine (after I reduced the grid size to .01) not ideal but it seems to work as long as the 8mm trace is fine enough for what you need to do.

Peter

> [@Keep PCB from being selected](http://forum.fritzing.org/t/keep-pcb-from-being-selected/1721/12):
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> All the programs have quirks, and because Fritzing does more than any other program there is more quirks. In places you will have to delete a wire to the bendpoint and reconnect it, rather than loosing the whole wire and starting again.

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